Nothing surprises an immigrant more then someone speaking their language— be it someone from the same country as them, or not. If familiarity had a language, for me, it would be Portuguese. The sing-song tone of it; the altos and lows and letters and punctuations that don’t exist in any other language I’ve studied. I’ve studied four.  So I’m in this coffee shop, right? And I’m nervous; I’m rea...

These images are a selection from my on going photography project based around Rap/grime artists in the city of Leeds in the UK. The project aims to capture the cultural aesthetics and energy produced by the artists at these underground events I have been attending. The abundance of confidence and ability shown by the artists I have photographed has inspired the start and continuation of my pro...

Through my images I wanted to manifest the personal rebellion of the youth . I wanted to capture the essence of culture , adventure and freedom.Eliya Kizozo 

We will not apologize for putting a name to your actions,We will no longer be silent, no longer be passive, If you feel you are at blame for the labels of your behaviours, Just know it is your habits that defined its nature, You call feminism extreme, and listen to media talk, About how our protests are wrong for challenging your dominant thoughts,You complain that we are at fault for wanting ...

There's this program from Long Beach, California I'd like to introduce called "Demo Reel", a comedy-talk show starring comedian Jalon Dyllan Sanford. What's different and fresh about this show isn't the quick-witted humor, nor the masterful editing from production company theDAMPERgroup, nor the unexpected antics in the show. What's different is that it's a magazine-format show (pressing topic...

This projects looks at some of the subtleties in the environment of diaspora and the network that is built by the women who make them. By leaving their own mothers behind they give a new life to the daughters they bring into the world. These photos represent the small details of Iranian life that exists in homes away from home.The things that have traveled with people and the things people do t...

https://simrenjani.myportfolio.com/lockdown-diariesThis is something I created to cheer people up on the small/big things we all missed doing. That could be spending time with friends and family to miss playing sports or doing your fav hobbies! It’s an empowerment video which lightens people’s with a special message at the end :)

https://simrenjani.myportfolio.com/lockdown-diariesThis is something I created to cheer people up on the small/big things we all missed doing. That could be spending time with friends and family to miss playing sports or doing your fav hobbies! It’s an empowerment video which lightens people’s with a special message at the end :)

I love how your metros at sunrise were riddled with nocturnal animals and early risers, beer bottles next to briefcases. The happily exhausted doused in glitter contrasted by the dark sea of suits.  I love how your streets at sunset were entwined with all kinds of friendly faces making perfect strangers seem almost familiar. Still today I feel nostalgia for people I never even knew.  I love the...

Youth is at war with everything, including itself. When we young, we are desperate to be experts in people, and how their actions impose or reward us, and the extent to which we’re curtailed by sadness, locked down, tired of fitting in. There are two halves to self-definition – being yourself free of influence, or taking other personalities for people who ask you to do so. Billie Eilish is cau...

This is the story of how I listened to this six-hour work in one sitting, and came closer to existential dread than I think I will ever want to. Ever.

Spotify might’ve legitimised anti-pop for the sake of inventing it. You might ask what anti-pop is. An easier answer might be what it isn’t. Fans quibble, yet they seem to locate a genre that embraces popular tastes while dismissing them.

It took a while to get here, but we’re ready for other stories that rage against stereotypes, borders, the quicksand of genre that some people can’t move past. And there are still borders to cross. I think I’ve found the novel that could do it.

We are talking about an online auction that is notable because the highest bidder would walk away not only with a piece of physical art in digitised form, but also the ability to destroy the original physical piece.

After Magdalene, her opus on feminine strength, life proved to be more unforgiving than ever.

When a snake eats itself, it also cries for popcorn. The latest Spiderman outing, No Way Home, is meta even for Marvel. Marvellous?

Here, we’re in the sun. It’s a hazy day in Los Angeles. We’re allowed to follow and enjoy it in the company of a movie star in a movie about movies. We can bask and wallow, indulge ourselves.

Today, a novel isn’t held back by visual demands (in other words, penny pinching), but much less earthly limitations of the work itself.

We are so far through the looking glass now, in fact, we have come to a fringe of menacing uncertainty.

As we’re kicked towards the light, darkness clings to our feet, a lyrical and textural transmission of release from pain.

There are artists, and there are Artists. We sometimes have to catch ourselves even using the term at all, as pop music is such an ephemeral process.

That’s the curious pull of Shiloh Dynasty – we can’t square her in our heads because she is a somebody and a nobody all at once...